How is what the Giants gave up for Eli stupid...I hate the ***** but Super Bowl champ bro ..I would trade every charger all time for one QB to get Bolts to the Super Bowl ...we had a shot at Elway and instead took BR..Gill Byrd and Gary Anderson... Or whatever 3 solid dudes we took that year..BUT Elway got the hardware... If I am the Giants I do that trade 100 out of 100 times.. Even as great as those pieces that came back to SD were

The Giants would have won those Super Bowls with Rivers too.

It takes a team to win those things, otherwise guys like Joe Flacco, Nick Foles, Trent Dilfer, and Mark Rypien wouldn't be holding more rings on their fingers than guys like Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, Fran Tarkenton, and Philip Rivers even.

So by this logic if someone took Brady in rd 1..they would have been the biggest boneheads ever...lol or maybe if they passed on Brady for almost 6 entire red they are all boneheads...lol

Don't get me wrong, I get the idea. No matter how great someone is if you could have had them in round 3 then it makes no sense to take them in round 1.

Even if you know someone will be Tom Brady but for whatever reason nobody else does and you have some kind of guarantee he'll be there in round 6 then you could conceivably have Tom Brady AND some other round 1 level talent (and 2-5 as well).

The error in judgment is assuming that there ever is some kind of guarantee someone will slide that far.

There is a line, though. If we take it to an extreme and you draft some guy that's a consensus UDFA in round 1 I don't think many people will argue the stupidity of it even if that player winds up being good. But it's one of those extreme grey area lines that will forever and always be argued because there is no definitive spot.